Whatever Red Hat's reasons are for not shipping mono with RHEL, GNote is a major win for the open source community. Different people and different operating systems have different needs, and providing yet another application to fill a need is what Free Software is all about. This gives Red Hat the opportunity, if it desires, to bring Tomboy to RHEL through GNote.

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Fully agree ... choice and availability is what the Ubuntu philosophy is all about.
Microsoft has only granted immunity to Novell users/clients, and Mono's GPL does not cover Mono’s Windows compatibility stack - of which TomBoy uses extensively. There is a lot to be wary of from MS when using Mono’s Windows compatibility stack, and IMHO thus lots to be wary of from TomBoy.

I find there are funny echoes of "You're hurting America!" in "It is harmful for the community" ...and it has long been evident how weak the former statement is as an argument. "The Iraq war will turn out badly? Don't say that, you're helping the terrorists and hurting America!"

"Jason" here has been copy-pasting the exact same spiel anywhere he thinks it'll get eyeballs. He doesn't stick around anywhere long enough to explain his meaning (i.e. leaving a flaming bag on the doorstep), so we can only assume.

Now, of those, which of them are not CLEARLY Free Software, Mono-specific (but cross-platform) libraries designed to leverage Free Software technologies? These ones:
Name=mscorlib
Name=System.Xml
Name=System

I doubt anyone expecting to be taken seriously would claim that things like GConf or GTK are part of a "Windows compatibility stack". Now, what of these three here? especially the scary-looking "ms" in "mscorlib"?

Well, take a trundle over to the ECMA-335 spec, available here: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-335.pdf - and jump down to Partition IV section 5, "The standard libraries". Page 473, if it helps. This makes you aware that there are a number of core libraries in the international ISO/ECMA standard. The "BCL" library in section 5? THAT's our "Name=mscorlib". The "XML" library? Well, that's "Name=System.Xml". "Network" library? "Name=System".

So, in short: can anyone explain what the hell "Jason" is suggesting? because if he's suggesting there's anything which isn't either an ISO spec (i.e. the way C90 is an ISO spec) or ground-up Free (like DBus or Pango or whatever) then as you can see, he's wrong.

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